Last update: Feb. 5, 2010

 

Specific Courses

• Ocean Acidification
• MATLAB for PhD Students
• Scientific Image Analysis with ImageJ
• Oceanographic Data Bases and Visualisation Tools
• Biostatistics
• Carbon cycling in a changing climate
• Moderne Risiken auf See
• Introduction to Numerical Modeling
• Data Mining, Data Application and Statistics
• GIS for Ocean Sciences

 

 

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Ocean Acidification

Initiated by a group of ISOS PhD Candidates, an ongoing series of discussions with senior scientists on several aspects of ocean acidification is taking place. The themes are largely identified and communicated by the seminar participants. Anyone wishing to participate is welcome to do so, including Masters and Diplom students

02. Nov 2009, 09:00 - 12:00 h
Carbonate System Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Arne Körtzinger
IFM-GEOMAR westshore building, small practical room

| DIC and TA measurements: which different methods of determination exist, how do the different devices work, what is the accuracy and pre-cision, which methods are commonly used - pros and cons? Interpretation of data obtained.
| pH-scales: differences in determination and calculation, usage of Tris-buffers, how can we optimise pH-measurements?
| Low and varying salinities: how can we deal with this when calculating the carbonate system, how can we ensure measurements are correct e.g. can we use the normal Dickson standards for DIC measurements?
| Open discussion

12. Nov 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 h
Calcification under High CO2: No Problem?
Prof. Dr. Frank Melzner, Dr. Magdalena Gutowska
IFM-GEOMAR westshore building, big conference room

| Measuring calcification: What methods exist, what are their strengths and weaknesses?
| A brief overview on calcification mechanisms of key marine taxa
(unicellular algae, foraminifera, echinoderms, molluscs, fish)
| A critical review of the recent literature on calcification in relation to carbonate system variability: why long-term studies are better
| Limits to calcification: how CO2 enriched habitats can help us learn more
| Will calcifying communities be outcompeted by algae in 50 years?
| Open discussion

14. Dec 2009, 10:00 h
Evolutionary and ecological response diversity in an acidified ocean
Prof.  Thorsten Reusch, Dr. Birte Matthiessen
IFM-GEOMAR westshore building, large conference room

Potential direct and indirect effects of OA on community functioning.
| What is response diversity?
| What is the ecological and evolutionary component?
| When can response diversity become important?
| Can key phytoplankton species evolve and how fast may this occur?
| Are some strains or genotypes pre-adapted to high pCO2??

26. Jan 2010, 9:00 h
Carbon  acquisition in marine phytoplankton at changing CO2
Dr. Kai Schulz
IFM-GEOMAR westshore building, large conference room

| Carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton
| Carbon concentrating mechanisms
| Consequences of increasing oceanic cO2
| Open discussion

- no registration required -

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MATLAB for PhDs

Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow, IFM-GEOMAR
07./08./10./11. Dec 2009, Daily from 09:00 – 13:00 h
Terminal Room, IFM-GEOMAR westshore building

Course Content:

1) Introduction to Matlab (general philosophy, vectors & matrices, basic mathematical operations, loops & if – statements, load & save data)
2) Matlab use for graphics
3) Structured approach to programming (write & debug your own script, efficient programming)
4) Basic data manipulation (basic statistical tools, interpolation, smoothing, model fitting, gridding of irregular data, etc.)

Please note that the course is aimed only at starting-level Matlab users and those with rudimentary skills. Please only apply if you are sure to attend.

Sorry - this course is full.

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Scientific Image Analysis with ImageJ

Marcel Austenfeld, eLK Medien, CAU Kiel
26. - 29. Jan 2010, 09:00 - 12:00 h
Seminar Room, Neufeldtstraße 10

Preparatory Meeting:
Tuesday 05. Jan 2010, 10:00 h,
Seminar Room, Neufeldtstraße 10

In disciplines as diverse as Biology, Geography, Medicine and Astronomy image analysis plays a fundamental part in accessing spatial and spectral information from two- or multi-dimensional data. Often these disciplines work on different scales (e.g. Microscopy and Astronomy) but employ the same algorithms for a profound analysis.

In this seminar some popular image analysis methods are presented. In addition to the automatic and non-automatic measurement of geometrical features and color space of the images, the analysis of 3-dimensional data (stacks) and time based image data (videos) will be trained.

For the practical part the free and open source image analysis software ImageJ will be used.
ImageJ is a platform-independent image analysis software written in Java which offers many specialized image algorithms and can be extended with a huge amount of free plug-ins. In addition, an easy-to-use macro language is available to create self-written image methods or to record and execute image analysis tasks.

The goal of this seminar is to enable participants to use a range of image analysis methods and in addition have an Image analysis tool at hand which is able to perform complex tasks.

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Oceanographic Data Bases and Visualisation Tools

Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider
08., 09. Feb 2010, 09:00 – 16:00 h

Terminal room - Neufeldstraße 10

The course will enable you to apply freely available software and oceanographic data for your work. We will use the visualization tool Ocean Data View (ODV) and focus on the eWOCE and WOA data bases. Please bring your own data in order to tailor the course according to your personal needs.

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Biostatistics

Dr. Mark Lenz, IFM-GEOMAR
22. - 26. Feb 2010, 09:00 - 16:00 h
Large practical room, IFM-GEOMAR westshore building

The purpose of this course is to refresh the students’ knowledge about statistics and to provide an overview over the most commonly used methods in analyzing univariate data sets. We will start with some basic aspects:
populations, samples, variables, collecting data, data quality levels, data distributions
- parameters of location and spread
- hypothesis testing
- parametric and non-parametric tests for two samples
- power analysis

After this we will extend the scope to the testing of more than two samples and consider different standard applications of the concept of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA):
- one-factorial ANOVA
- multi-factorial ANOVA
- post-hoc testing and contrast analyses
- hierarchical ANOVA
- repeated measures ANOVA
- Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)

Finally, we will switch to the analysis of relationships between variables by covering
- correlations
- simple regressions
- multiple regressions

All procedures will be introduced by lectures and will then be deepened by exercises using the commercial stats software package STATISTICA.

Sorry - this course is full.

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Carbon cycling in a changing climate

Prof. Dr. Tina Treude, IFM-GEOMAR
Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, Dept. of Geology
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Kirstin Krüger, IFM-GEOMAR

22.- 26.Feb 2010, 9:00 - 16:30h
IFM-GEOMAR, westshore building, large conference room

Preparatory Meeting
Monday 11. Jan 2010, 18:15h


This interdisciplinary seminar should give an introduction into the role of carbon (including the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane) in the climate-system, with a focus on the coupling of atmosphere, ocean and solid earth. Climate change issues will be discussed interactively along the current fourth IPCC assessment.

The seminar is divided into interactive lectures connected to a student part with presentations and exercises including studying and presenting recent articles on modern aspects of carbon in the climate-system. Within teams the students should learn to analyze and discuss scientific papers and IPCC chapters in more detail. Finally, a synthesis paper will be developed by all participants together.
 

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Moderne Risiken auf See

Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß, Prof. Dr. Uwe Jenisch
Blockveranstaltung am 23. und 24. Februar 2010

Vorbesprechung am 26. Oktober 18:00 Uhr (Gebäude Westring 400, Raum 03.19)

Download der kompletten Ankündigung inklusive Themenliste hier (als PDF).

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Data Mining, Data Application and Statistics

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thalheim
29. Mar - 01. Apr 2010, 09:00 - 15:00 h, afterward two hours practical application of tools
Department of Computer Science, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 3, R 408a

Preparatory Meeting
Thursday 11. Feb. 2010, 09:00 h
ISOS Seminar Room, Neufeldstraße 10

- Mathematic Basics
- Classification
- Assoziationen
- Modelling
- Cluster Analysis
- Time Series Analysis
- Aberrations

Data Mining is about computer based tracing of classification functions, rules and other formalised connections within big data packages like the frequency of occurance of certain words in spam e-mails. The course deals with the algorithmic basics of Data Mining in the context of application. Some of the algorithms will be various classification techniques, association rules, clustering, and methods of time series analysis. Further crucial topics will be data preparation and selection of significant attributes.

Participants can bring their own data.

Tools and Literature

Literature to read.

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GIS for Ocean Sciences

Bianca Willié, Zentrum für Geoinformation  (ZfG)
19.-23. Apr. 2010, 9:00 – 16:00 h
Terminal room, Neufeldtstr.

Preparatory Meeting:
08. March 2010, 10:00 – 11:00 h, seminar room, Neufeldtstr.


This introductory course aims to provide the students with knowledge in the developing field of Geographic Information System (GIS) using ArcGIS 9.3.1 from ESRI: its theory and applications. Upon the completion of the course the participants will be able to use a GIS: explore, display, query, select, create and edit data, present maps; understand the nature of spatial data, acquire spatial geographic data and analyze it.

Part one: participants will gain a basic understanding of what is GIS, and will be introduced to the basic GIS concepts necessary to efficiently use GIS technology. They will get the basic skills of the use of ArcGIS: explore, display, query, select, create and edit spatial data. Finally they will learn how to design and present maps.

Part two: Georeferencing and Rectification of digitized analog maps; Coordinate systems and projections are fundamental elements of mapping. GIS databases place features in space using coordinate systems. Because of the difficulties of referencing objects into an orthogonal grid, any GIS layer may utilize any of hundreds coordinate systems. It is difficult to accommodate information in different coordinate systems without getting the user involved in reconciling one with the other. The participants get to know how to transform data from one coordinate system into another and how to deal with coordinate systems in general.

Part three: participants will learn how to acquire geographical, spatial data; employ it in a GIS; and explore the ways in which it can be analyzed.

Part four: dealing with participants’ specific questions and their requirements for their individual projects.

The content will depend on the background of those attending the course. At the preparatory meeting we will talk about what you want to get to know about GIS and for what purpose you will use GIS.

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Ansprechpartner

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• Angelika Hoffmann

  Bereich:

  ISOS, Project Assistant

  Telefon:

  0431-880-1559

  Email:

  ahoffmann@uv.uni-kiel.de

• Kerstin Hoffmann

  Bereich:

  ISOS, Project Manager

  Telefon:

  0431-880-4837

  Email:

  khoffmann@uv.uni-kiel.de